Hose-supporter.



S. PLORSHEIM.

HOSE SUPPORTEB.

APPLICATION FILED 001222. 1908.

Patented May 16, 1911) SIMON FLORSHEIM, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. October 22, 1908.

Patented May 16, 1911.

Serial No. 459,080.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON Fnousnnnr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iose-Supporters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The hose supporter of this invention is intended to provide a neat,compact and easily operated hose supporter in which a very considerablesurface is provided for the engagement of the hook, space being providedbetween the clamping members for the reception of the end of the fabricwhich may be therein folded or doubled up to a considerable extent.

Further objects will appear from a dctailed description of theinvention, which consists in the features of construction andcombination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure l is a front elevation of the preferred form ofthe hose supporter in clamped position; Fig. 2 a similar view, showingthe same in partially unclamped position; Fig. 3 a longitudinalsectional View of the device as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 a similar viewof the device shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 a front end view of the devicein the position shown in Fig. 1.

The device, of the preferred form of construction, consists of twomembers 7 and S, the former of which may, for convenience, be termed theloop member, and the latter of which may be termed the stud member. Theloop member is in the form of a flat plate provided, near its outer end,with a shoulder or offset 9 terminating in a tongue 10. The tongue isprovided with a slot 11 which extends back through the shoulder 9, beingenlarged at its rear end 12. The stud member, which cooperates with theloop member, comprises a body or plate 13, having its forward end turnedback to form a hooked stud 14, which is connected with the body of themember by means of a neck 15 of reduced diameter. The hooked stud hasclamped therein a transversely extending bar of rubber 16, or similarmaterial, the ends of which project beyond the metal of the stud and areadapted to engage the upper surface of the loop member. The loop member,as shown, is of greater length than the stud member, and terminates inits rear end, in a sleeve 17, which is hinged on a cross bar 18 whichforms part of the frame 19, which frame is of open formation and furthercomprises an outer cross bar 20, side bars 21, and a loop 22, the latterbeing adapted for connection with the usual elastic tape. The rear endof the stud section is likewise provided with a sleeve 23, which ishinged to the outer cross bar 20, the pivotal points being aconsiderable distance from one another.

In using, the device above described, when the open frame is moved fromits parallel relation with the two sections of the device, it will drawback the stud section out of the position shown in Fig. 3, and into theposition shown in Fig. 41-. This also carries back the head of the studthrough the enlarged end 12 of the slot 11, thereby permitting the studto be bodily disengaged from the loop section. When in this position thefabric can be applied to the stud, and the latter thereafter projectedthrough the enlarged end of the slot which is formed in the offset ofshoulder. 'lhercafter, when the parts are turned back to normalposition, the stud will be projected forward toard the contracted end ofthe slot, carrying with it the fabric, which is clamped by the rubberpiece or bar and held against the face of the slotted section.

The device is one which enables a stud of considerable width to beemployed, thereby distributing the strain and tension ovcr'aconsiderable amount of fabric rather than concentrating it at a singlepoint, which is undesirable for obvious reasons.

The arrangement of the clamping and stud members is such that when theparts are in clamping position they cannot become disengaged save onlyby the manipulation of the wire. The tendency of the parts is tomaintain a parallel relation with one another so that they can bedisengaged only by moving the frame to such position that the parts willbe disengaged.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a hose supporter, the combination of a frame comprising upper,intermediate and lower cross rails, a looped clamping member looselymounted upon the intermediate cross rail, a headed clamping memberloosely mounted upon the lower cross rail, the free end of the headedclamping member being bent to form a hollow head extending atsubstantially right angles outwardly from the body portion, a section ofresilient substanceheld Within said head, the metal at headed clampingmember from passing the juncture of the body portion and headtherethrough, the fabric being clamped be being reduced to a sizesmaller than the tween the lower edge of the resilient subbody portionor head, said looped clamping stance, and the upper face of the metal 5member being formed of a piece of sheet lying adjacent to the reducedportion of the 15 metal and having its ends ofiset toward the slot,substantially as described. inner face of the supporter, and being pro-SIMON FLORSHEIM. vided With a slot having one portion en- Witnesses:larged, said enlarged portion being of a WALKER BANNING,

10 size'to prevent the body portion of the PmRsoN W. BANNING.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

/ Washington, D. C.

